Places Jfmcl Wants to Go

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

A network of concealed passageways lies within a busy London Underground station.

A mysterious artist-run cabinet of curiosities and library.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.

This wildly-tiled artist's palace is a living and growing account of the creator's life, loves, and labors.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

The site of London’s first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.

A makeshift shrine to the late rock star is still kept up on the nondescript façade outside 1 Logan Place.

A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.